Exodus 20:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

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  • Col 3:20 : 20 the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;
  • Mark 7:10 : 10 for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;
  • Eph 6:1-3 : 1 The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; 2 honour thy father and mother, 3 which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 `Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I `am' Jehovah your God.
  • Mark 10:19 : 19 the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'
  • Luke 18:20 : 20 the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'
  • Exod 21:15 : 15 `And he who smiteth his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
  • Exod 21:17 : 17 `And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death; 5 but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; -- 6 and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
  • Matt 19:19 : 19 honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 `At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed;
  • Deut 4:40 : 40 and thou hast kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, so that it is well to thee, and to thy sons after thee, and so that thou prolongest days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- all the days.'
  • Deut 5:16 : 16 `Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
  • Deut 25:15 : 15 Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;
  • Deut 32:47 : 47 for it `is' not a vain thing for you, for it `is' your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'
  • 1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 And Bath-Sheba cometh in unto king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, and the king riseth to meet her, and boweth himself to her, and sitteth on his throne, and placeth a throne for the mother of the king, and she sitteth at his right hand.
  • 2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 And Elisha is seeing, and he is crying, `My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen;' and he hath not seen him again; and he taketh hold on his garments, and rendeth them into two pieces.
  • Prov 1:8-9 : 8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, 9 For a graceful wreath `are' they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour.
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 23:22-25 : 22 Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old. 23 Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding, 24 The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him. 25 Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.
  • Prov 28:24 : 24 Whoso is robbing his father, or his mother, And is saying, `It is not transgression,' A companion he is to a destroyer.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 A generation `is', that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.
  • Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I `am' a father, where `is' Mine honour? And if I `am' a master, where `is' My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: `In what have we despised Thy name?'
  • Eph 5:21 : 21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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    6and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

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    19honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'

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    9`For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood `is' on him.

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    19the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

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